The Spanish athlete Yassine Ouhdadi was declared this Monday at the Charlèty stadium in Paris (France) Paralympic athletics world champion in the 5,000 meter T13 category of the visually impaired.
Ouhdadi, 28 years old, he leads the race with a great tactic that allows him to reach the finish line alone and stop the timer at 15:16.97. Australian Jaryd Clifford, who faced the World Cup with the best mark of the season by far, finished second in 15:18.23, while the third place on the podium was occupied by Canadian Guillaume Ouellet with 15:22.85.
The other Spaniards in the competition, Asturian marathon runner Alberto Suárez Laso finished sixth with 15:29.75.
FROM MOROCCO TO TORTOSA
Yassine Ouhdadi, who was born with inoperable cataracts in both eyes, is completely blind on the left and partially blind on the right.
He came to Spain from Morocco when he was six years old with his parents and eight siblings. and they settled in the Tarragona town of Tortosa, where his family opened a grocery store.
She studied until the age of fifteen but had to leave it to help out at home although he didn’t think too much of it because he was having a hard time not reading the papers easily.
Athletics came into his life at the end of 2014. First as another leisure activity, his training in the mountains and on the asphalt. His talent did not go unnoticed by the Spanish Paralympic Committee, which recruited him to be part of the national team, where he was declared world runner-up in 2019 in Dubai and Paralympic champion in Tokyo 2020.
Source: La Verdad
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